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Warning on US ports? productivity

By Andrew Ward in Long Beach, California

Published: March 13 2006 17:58 | Last updated: March 13 2006 17:58

The US must increase investment in its congested transport infrastructure and sharply raise productivity at its ports or risk being overwhelmed by surging imports from Asia, industry leaders say.

?Every aspect of the supply chain is stretched,? Doug Tilden, chief executive of Marine Terminals, a port operator, told the Financial Times. ?It?s not a question of whether [a congestion crisis] is going to happen. It?s a question of when.?

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